Triple

T4173535
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Koizumi Yakumo E86419 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Lafcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn was a writer and translator best known for his pioneering English-language collections of Japanese ghost stories and his influential accounts of Meiji-era Japan.
E418396 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Lafcadio Hearn | Statement: [Koizumi Yakumo, alsoKnownAs, Lafcadio Hearn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lafcadio Hearn
Context triple: [Koizumi Yakumo, alsoKnownAs, Lafcadio Hearn]
  • A. Joseph Hardy Neesima
    Joseph Hardy Neesima was a pioneering Japanese Christian educator and reformer who played a key role in introducing Western-style higher education to Japan.
  • B. Okamura Yasuji
    Okamura Yasuji was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who played a leading role in Japan’s military campaigns in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • C. Frank Kawakami
    Frank Kawakami is a video game industry figure best known as a founder of the game development studio Treyarch, which became prominent for its work on the Call of Duty franchise.
  • D. Junichiro Tanizaki
    Junichiro Tanizaki was a major 20th-century Japanese novelist known for exploring themes of eroticism, obsession, and the clash between traditional Japanese and modern Western values in works such as "Naomi" and "The Makioka Sisters."
  • E. Masayuki Kakefu
    Masayuki Kakefu is a former Japanese professional baseball slugger and third baseman best known for his starring role with the Hanshin Tigers in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Lafcadio Hearn
Triple: [Koizumi Yakumo, alsoKnownAs, Lafcadio Hearn]
Generated description
Lafcadio Hearn was a writer and translator best known for his pioneering English-language collections of Japanese ghost stories and his influential accounts of Meiji-era Japan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lafcadio Hearn
Target entity description: Lafcadio Hearn was a writer and translator best known for his pioneering English-language collections of Japanese ghost stories and his influential accounts of Meiji-era Japan.
  • A. Joseph Hardy Neesima
    Joseph Hardy Neesima was a pioneering Japanese Christian educator and reformer who played a key role in introducing Western-style higher education to Japan.
  • B. Okamura Yasuji
    Okamura Yasuji was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who played a leading role in Japan’s military campaigns in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • C. Frank Kawakami
    Frank Kawakami is a video game industry figure best known as a founder of the game development studio Treyarch, which became prominent for its work on the Call of Duty franchise.
  • D. Junichiro Tanizaki
    Junichiro Tanizaki was a major 20th-century Japanese novelist known for exploring themes of eroticism, obsession, and the clash between traditional Japanese and modern Western values in works such as "Naomi" and "The Makioka Sisters."
  • E. Masayuki Kakefu
    Masayuki Kakefu is a former Japanese professional baseball slugger and third baseman best known for his starring role with the Hanshin Tigers in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69aed93de98c8190ad838ce507b77c8a completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af02e7d30081909774a3e2a2132d6a completed March 9, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b57f5428a0819082aaea8950a7c039 completed March 14, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5800ab42c8190a1bc6f84db38f170 completed March 14, 2026, 3:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5843d6ac88190804242661d077546 completed March 14, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:45 p.m.